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<blockquote data-quote="Paladin300" data-source="post: 2410922" data-attributes="member: 115299"><p>42 yard verified with a range finder whitetail.</p><p></p><p>Never had a reason to shoot farther not to say that I wouldn't in the right conditions but I shot a bow twice a day everyday for about 10 years. 120 arrows a day at 3D and bag targets from 3 yards to 120 yards. On top of that I shot about 25 tournaments a year and went on several sponsored hunts. I like to bow hunt more than anything else but I prefer to shoot, when hunting, inside 25 yards. My aging eyes and back aren't what they use to be!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙂" title="Slightly smiling face :slight_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" data-shortname=":slight_smile:" /> Besides, Bowhunting to me is about getting in a big bucks living room without him knowing your there and making a clean kill. I don't even want him to know he has been shot!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" /></p><p></p><p>The issue with bow kills beyond about 60 yards, for me, is all the things that can go wrong on game animals when you stretch it beyond 60 yards or so. I have personally witnessed a doe killed just shy of a 100 yards with a bow. A perfect double lung shot. She did not go Twenty yards. DOA! But I do not recommend it. Although it made for great footage, there is always our responsibility to make clean ethical kills. Most modern compound bows are far more capable of shooting targets in another zip code than the ones shooting them. They carry enough energy at 200 yards to kill a 180 lb whitetail but the skill needed to make that shot as well as all of the uncontrollable elements make it In my opinion unethical but at the end of the day each person must make that call for him or herself. At one time I could put 10 shots inside a softball size area at 100 yards but all the stars where aligned, the conditions were ideal, the target wasn't thinking about bolting at the first sign of movement, there was no pressure and the world was at peace. Those conditions don't exist when your hunting any large game animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paladin300, post: 2410922, member: 115299"] 42 yard verified with a range finder whitetail. Never had a reason to shoot farther not to say that I wouldn’t in the right conditions but I shot a bow twice a day everyday for about 10 years. 120 arrows a day at 3D and bag targets from 3 yards to 120 yards. On top of that I shot about 25 tournaments a year and went on several sponsored hunts. I like to bow hunt more than anything else but I prefer to shoot, when hunting, inside 25 yards. My aging eyes and back aren’t what they use to be!🙂 Besides, Bowhunting to me is about getting in a big bucks living room without him knowing your there and making a clean kill. I don’t even want him to know he has been shot!😁 The issue with bow kills beyond about 60 yards, for me, is all the things that can go wrong on game animals when you stretch it beyond 60 yards or so. I have personally witnessed a doe killed just shy of a 100 yards with a bow. A perfect double lung shot. She did not go Twenty yards. DOA! But I do not recommend it. Although it made for great footage, there is always our responsibility to make clean ethical kills. Most modern compound bows are far more capable of shooting targets in another zip code than the ones shooting them. They carry enough energy at 200 yards to kill a 180 lb whitetail but the skill needed to make that shot as well as all of the uncontrollable elements make it In my opinion unethical but at the end of the day each person must make that call for him or herself. At one time I could put 10 shots inside a softball size area at 100 yards but all the stars where aligned, the conditions were ideal, the target wasn’t thinking about bolting at the first sign of movement, there was no pressure and the world was at peace. Those conditions don’t exist when your hunting any large game animal. [/QUOTE]
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